Well, Elsevier is maybe for some people the worst of the bunch (cannot speak from experience, though). Springer, for example, has very relaxed and open copyrig

Well, Elsevier is maybe for some people the worst of the bunch (cannot speak from experience, though). Springer, for example, has very relaxed and open copyright transfers. You basically retain the right to have copies on your website, on archives, etc., provided that they contain a link to the 'definitive version' of your paper. Elsevier does that to some extent as well, but Springer _also_ invests money to 'cross-fund' (if that is a word) books in fields that do not attract so many readers and that otherwise could not be published. So in that sense, Springer is giving back to the community and people are appreciating that more. I agree, however, that there seems to be generic and unspecified hatred against Elsevier; having not reviewed for them or published with them, I do not have a properly-formed opinion here.